Antonin Scalia: “Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public…”

I'm optimistic enough to believe that one day Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned to its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott.

Even the name of it is wonderful, the Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?

Government can never have--never have a compelling interest in implementing race-conscious programs that seek to address this Nation's wretched history of racial discrimination.

it is precisely because we are a cosmopolitan Nation made up of people of every conceivable religious preference, and precisely because we value religious divergence, that we cannot afford the luxury of deeming presumptively invalid, as…